TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 17hConditions at Shell Beach (Lake Borgne) from TNC; about 3' storm surge already 010
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 17hWater level, predicted and actual; wind speed and direction at SW Pass (from NOAA Tides and Currents) 110
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Reminds me of the life-size outdoor set at the old Black Labrador Pub by St Thomas U in Montrose, Houston -- apparently it closed 7 years ago, but it was a great place during my H-Town stint in the 80s 020
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 08/10/20262019 Streetview left; recent right. I do not know what they are doing with the paint job, but it looks awful right now. Clearcut mature plantings, but it's still being worked on 241
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Generations of students have enjoyed this lovely shady spot; now the school is deliberately wrecking it for all time 061
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026On my walk by McGehee today. Two of these doomed oaks are massive and likely greater than 150 years old. What a lovely space they’re about to destroy 31711
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026McGehee to build Soviet gymnasium destroying their side yard and 4 ancient live oaks 352
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well, this only lasted like a minute, and I did not figure out what was acting as a prism to give us this inside rainbow. Many years here and never saw it before 040
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Reminds me of Father Mapple in Moby Dick (1956), played by Orson Welles 030
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nick Nolte and Cylk Cozart scramble over the levee in Algiers; Blue Chips (1994) basketball movie. Wonder whatever happened to that old locomotive apparently once used by Bisso Towing 172
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I see where this is going (but it's going to get worse, way worse) 120
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026That one was in the morning. Here it lights up in the afternoon 120
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I like this amount of pink - house on Race just after new paint in 2017 120
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Remember Italian Pie on Prytania. 19th c raised center-hall rotting away since 2014, when owner indicted in $50mm Medicare fraud (15 yr fed sentence). New owner demolishing the interior and building 6 apartments; I have mixed feelings (2011, 2014, 2025; house, rest., wreck). Exterior will remain COA 492
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026OMG, the last of Laozi ice cream in home-baked sugar cones. Mrs TK rocks. Also, bon voyage Salvatore 1120
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you're in a typical NE US suburban home with oil heat expect to spend about $5000-$6000 this winter 102
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Screenshot of chart 2 from comptroller report including labels comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/rece... 010
TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Uptown getting pummeled as this t-storm just stands still and sending thunder and lightning all around us 240
